[–] newoldwave 1 point 0 points 1 point (+1|-1) ago
How did America end up this way? Our law makers saw the danger with a drugged society and passed laws against certain drugs. Such drugs became immediately available on the black market because so many Americans wanted those drugs as if they couldn't live without them (which of course, they could very well). Criminal enterprises saw the opportunity to make a lot of money selling illegal drugs to the people. So the federal and state governments set about to put the drug dealers out of business. They quickly learned that to find the dealers and drug king pins they had to start by finding the drug users and work upwards. The state put the drug users in jail hoping some time in prison would discourage their drug use. They keep hoping this approach will work. But, then the drug lords now have enough money to fight back when police come calling, so the police upgrade their equipment and so on. So, now we have the drug industry, the prison industry and the police industry all because so many Americans just have to have their cocaine and marijuana. Why they want it so badly, i haven't a clue.
[–] Balrogic 1 point 0 points 1 point (+1|-1) ago (edited ago)
We let fucking Blackwater train our police, we let the Patriot act happen, we haven't been terribly successful at opposing our out in the open abuse by tyrants. The same company that trained the Blackwater guys that had a penchant for randomly murdering innocent people in Iraq are training police officers with a penchant for randomly murdering innocent people. Coincidence? I think not.